so he would know what details alderman and i think nixon knew about the liddy plan. he wouldn't do it. and sadly, pat buchanan, i tried very hard to get pat buchanan to do it, he wouldn't do it. >> robert bork who was the acting attorney general at the time -- this is another issue. he's 85. still here with us. this is the issue of spiro agnew. >> by the way, one of the things that happened is you learn things. i thought in the beginning i was going to hear stories that many of them had said, through the history channel, when you do an interview for the government, it becomes public domain. i was really keen on creating free individual yes. it belongs to everybody now. i assumed they would tell stories in proprietary collections. what i started to get, what we started to get were stories i had never heard before. this is one of them. this is unbelievable, this is bork talking about how he and the attorney general at that point, elliot richardson, are afraid that richard nixon is not going to go ahead with the prosecution of the vice president spiro agnew. spiro agnew